Charles Harrington arrived in Rochester in 1871 to work for the railroad. It didn’t take long for...
Twin Cities Area
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Swinford Townhomes
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
District #28 School in Ramsey
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The Swinford Apartments
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Greater Minnesota
The Almelund Creamery
The first cooperative creamery opened in Almelund in 1896 and quickly gained a reputation for...
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Originally built as the second home of the First Swedish Baptist Church in 1910, the Temple Baptist...
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Little Falls Depot
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Meyer School In St Augusta
Exploring Ottawa
Exploring Sandstone
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Endion School In Duluth
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Daniel Piper House in Medford
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Welcome to Hanska
Welcome To Dotson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Oxford Mill Ruin
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Remembering Quadna Resort
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
Historic Wasioja
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Enter Marlon Brando
The End of the Line in Currie
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
The Duluth Homestead Project
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Welcome To Cobden
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Historic Franconia
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Little Marais Inn
Red Wing Iron Works
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Lost Highway 61
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Moving Old Hibbing
Visiting Golden Gate
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Church of the Holy Cross
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Old Brewery In Preston
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Hollywood Town Hall
Green Lake Mounds
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Milford Monument
District 6 School in New Sweden
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Ruins of Sawyer School
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
District 48 School Near Delano
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Bend in the River Regional Park
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
State Theater In Hutchinson
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lundring Service Station in Canby
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
The Le Sueur Theater
The Old School In Wolverton
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Dead Good Walks
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chester Township Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Since 1980, the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon has attracted mushers from around the world...
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Laura Belle Baker was born in Chariton, Iowa on April 10, 1859. Her parents were liberal and civic...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Discovering Wisconsin Point
I found one of my new favorite places in 2020 while enjoying time outside while social distancing...
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
The East Arcadia Roller Mill is located on the southern bank of Turton Creek near Arcadia...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Punished Woman’s Lake
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City